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S.T. Joshi’s blog updates

16 Friday Mar 2012

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A new blog post was made yesterday by S.T. Joshi…

“I was pleased to be asked by Scarecrow Press to initiate a series of scholarly or academic books on weird fiction. The series will, I believe, be called The Literature of the Supernatural.”

And the much-anticipated ‘heavily illustrated’ version of the biography, H.P. Lovecraft: Nightmare Countries, seems to be progressing well. I’m certainly really champing at the bit for that one.

   [ Hat-tip: Wilum Pugmire ]

Verminomicon

05 Monday Mar 2012

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Verminomicon: a Field Guide to the Vermin of Yuggoth; Abominations of a Haunted World (Raw Dog, 2012) is a new illustrated book featuring the sculptures of Anthony DeBartolis…

“In a tribute to H.P. Lovecraft, Verminomicon showcases the imagination and skill of sculptor Anthony DeBartolis who has spent years crafting more than thirty different species of vermin from Yuggoth. This disturbingly beautiful volume not only explores the multidimensional menace of the fungoid Mi-Go race established in “The Whisperer in Darkness,” but expands on Lovecraft’s twisted vision—at the reader’s peril. Full-color images of DeBartolis’ sculptures are paired with descriptive text from author John Edward Lawson to deliver a field guide of diabolic scope that also details the story of a scientist caught up in the Mi-Go plot against humanity.”

Pre-ordering now.

Lovecraft Anthology 2

31 Tuesday Jan 2012

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Here’s a peek at the cover of The Lovecraft Anthology Vol.2. It’s a 128-page anthology of comic book adaptations, edited by Dan Lockwood and due from Self Made Hero in March 2012. Judging by the choice of cover illustration (it seems brave of Self Made, not to put tentacles on the cover) we get a comics adaptation of “The Terrible Old Man”. Also…

Pat Mills and Attila Futaki (“The Nameless City”), Ben Dickson and Mick McMahon (“The Picture in the House”), Jamie Delano and Steve Pugh (“Pickman’s Model”).

Wilum Pugmire looks at the Annotated Holmes, reveals Annotated Lovecraft

25 Wednesday Jan 2012

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Wilum Pugmire takes a look at the kind of sumptious production values we can expect from the just-announced New Annotated Lovecraft edition — set to be published by W.W. Norton in 2015…

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How far Lovecraft’s work has come, from being published only ephemerally and on the cheapest woodpulp paper of the pulp magazines. Although I guess Norton will have to use the public domain texts, and not Joshi’s revised and corrected texts?

New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft announced for 2015

24 Tuesday Jan 2012

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A Sherlock Holmes specialist named Leslie S. Klinger has reportedly announced he is working on a New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft volume, for mainstream publisher W.W. Norton, due out in 2015. He’s a U.S. lawyer who has previously crafted The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: Vols. 1 & 2, The Short Stories, and Vol. 3, The Novels (2004), and The New Annotated Dracula (2008), both published in sumptious-but-affordable doorstopper editions by W.W. Norton. I’m a fan and not a scholar of the Holmes stories, and I have little interest in vampires, so I have to say that Klinger is a name that has passed me by until now. I haven’t delved into it very deeply, but there appears to be some controversy around his annotated volumes. Wilum Pugmire reports on Facebook that… “S.T. [Joshi] figures that most of the annotations in the [Klinger] Lovecraft volume will be culled from his own commentary”.

WSJ on As If and Lovecraft

21 Saturday Jan 2012

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The Wall Street Journal Bookshelf’s Tom Shippey reviews As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality (Oxford Uni Press, 2012)…

“Mr. Saler counterpunches vigorously against the whole edifice of literary snobbery [against SF, fantasy and the weird]. What he has to say is so self-evidently right that the fact he has to say it makes one wonder how the critical profession has managed, for so long, to cultivate such a large blind spot. His book should be essential reading in every graduate school of the humanities. But it’s much more fun than that recommendation suggests.”

Three Messages and a Warning – new Mexican anthology

20 Friday Jan 2012

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Launching on 26th Jan in Texas at the Creativity and the Brain conference, a new doorstopper 300-page anthology Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Stories of the Fantastic. It’s from Small Beer Press, and the book is in English…

“Thirty four all-original Mexican science fiction and fantasy features ghost stories, supernatural folktales, alien incursions, and apocalyptic narratives, as well as science-based chronicles of highly unusual mental states in which the borders of fantasy and reality reach unprecedented levels of ambiguity. Introduction by Bruce Sterling.”

Here’s Alberto Chimal reading his story from the anthology, “Variation on a Theme of Coleridge”…

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Amazon USA currently has the paper version available for pre-order at an enticing $10 with free shipping, for those who own surgical wrist supports. No news of any lighter-weight Kindle edition, although there will be a $10 PDF edition for tablet PC users.